Archive for May, 2008

Word ate all my nice CPU…

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, by moose

OK, so I posted yesterday about a bug in Excel 2008, and now I just hit another one in Word (yes, I’m not counting the one that does the same sort of random document windows rearranging when you use multiple screens, it plagues Word as well as Excel, which, in a way, is sort of [...]

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Oh! Excel wherefore are thou Excel?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, by moose

So I’ve been using Office 2008 for a while, and been cursing and screaming at it for taking more time to launch on my MacBook Pro C2D 2.3GH than it took Office 2004 running in Rosetta. As well as for having exactly the same bugs happening in exactly the same situations, mostly in Word (like [...]

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iPod to feature in PS3’s Metal Gear Solid 4

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, by moose

So, after playing a central role in William Gibson’s Spook Country, as a means to smuggle data, the iPod is now going to feature in the latest - and last - installment of the cult video game franchise Metal Gear Solid, coming to PlayStation 3 this June.

IGN: Metal Gear Solid 4 Meets iPod:
Of particular note [...]

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Spot the Idiot: Bill Gates on Windows 7

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, by moose

Well, what can I say? Here’s what the Bill said:
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient
Ars technica: Gates: Windows 7 will “take less memory, be [...]

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Aperture 2’s RAW 2.0 developer kicks some ISO noise ass… big time!

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, by moose

So,
I was going back to some of my pictures I imported using Aperture 1.x and, since I’m using Aperture 2 now, I wanted to try the 2.0 RAW developer on some “old” pictures.
See, I didn’t convert my whole photo library from RAW 1.1 to RAW 2.0, because I noticed it tends to change the color [...]

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A Windows developer explains why he switched to make apps for the Mac - part II

Monday, May 5th, 2008, by moose

In a previous post, I pointed to an interesting chronicle written by a long-time Windows developer who decided to switch over to doing Mac apps because he was fed up with the ugly Win platform.
In the second part of his story, he focuses on the story of the .net trainwreck environment.
From Win32 to Cocoa: a [...]

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iPhone most popular cameraphone on flickr

Friday, May 2nd, 2008, by moose

So, even if the iPhone’s camera is not exactly the best around, it seems it’s widly popular, as can be seen in flickr’s camera stats:

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I can’t say I use the iPhone a lot for shooting pictures (appart from the occasional family shot or for taking a picture of my parking space number [...]

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It’s as simple as that…

Thursday, May 1st, 2008, by moose

Going Private: The Five ForcesCircles of Hell:
Why do I love Apple?  They intend to make money because of my desires, not despite them.
You’d think it would be obvious, but as you read the (lengthy) piece, you realize it’s not.

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